48 Days Later

Posted on June 23, 2023 by Jean

I’ve been using Duolingo for 48 days now. I spent a lot of time on it for the first month, but now I do the minimum, about 15 minutes a day, to keep my streak going. I make liberal use of SpanishDictionary, and I seem to be learning something. Here’s a sample problem:

I have some other apps I can use for variety, but mostly now I’m taking advantage of the fact that a lot of Amazon Prime videos have the option of Spanish subtitles, so I’ve been streaming them. I sometimes stop to look up words, but other times I understand enough of what’s going on and skip the words I don’t know.

Assuming life doesn’t get in the way, it should be fun to see how much I learn in another month or so. I’m impressed at all the options we have nowadays to keep learning interesting and fun.

June 23, 2023

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15 Responses to 48 Days Later

  1. Catherine de Seton says:
    June 23, 2023 at 2:55 am

    yes, times have changed sooooooooo much.

    it’s only been a few decades since, we had to either go to the library and get a print book on our chosen subject OR get out the 10 volumes of a Encylopedia AND then not necessarily find what we needed!

    congratulations Jean on finding my language and getting on with learning it…

  2. MadSnapper says:
    June 23, 2023 at 5:14 am

    I get primero as first but the rest is greek to me, make that spanish to me ha ha

  3. Myra Guca says:
    June 23, 2023 at 7:54 am

    Applauding from the (Southeastern) wings!

  4. Ginny Hartzler says:
    June 23, 2023 at 11:37 am

    Learning new languages is one of the hardest things!

  5. Linda Sand says:
    June 23, 2023 at 1:06 pm

    First, you have what…with…? I know that literal translations don’t often work but since I don’t know the two primary words that’s the best I can do without looking anything up.

    • Jean says:
      June 23, 2023 at 11:21 pm

      In this case you either look up the words you don’t know, or you take a wild guess and let Duolingo mark you wrong and tell you the answer. It will ask you again later.

  6. Bruce Taylor says:
    June 23, 2023 at 1:11 pm

    That was easy. ‘Course I slapped it into Google translate. Then it was easy. Let me know when you want to learn some Spanish cursing. 😀

  7. Ann Thompson says:
    June 23, 2023 at 2:54 pm

    I don’t understand a word of it 🙂 Google is a big help though…lol

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